With security befitting the nuclear “football,” Colonel Sanders’ secret recipe of eleven herbs and spices was briefly moved from a top secret filing cabinet this week so that Kentucky Fried Chicken executives could revamp security around the seventy-year-old document.
Think we’re kidding? KFC apparently doesn’t play around when it comes to this thing, people.
From the Associated Press:
The temporary relocation is allowing KFC to revamp security around a yellowing sheet of paper that contains one of the country’s most famous corporate secrets.
KFC hired off-duty police officers and private security guards to whisk the document away to an undisclosed location in an armored car.
The recipe will be slid into a briefcase and handcuffed to a security expert.
For more than 20 years, the recipe has been tucked away in a filing cabinet equipped with two combination locks in company headquarters.
So important is the 68-year-old concoction that coats the chain’s Original Recipe chicken that only two company executives at any time have access to it. The company refuses to release their names or titles, and it uses multiple suppliers who produce and blend the ingredients but know only a part of the entire contents.
Geez. This is almost like the DaVinci Code. Except you can eat it.
